# exigent
## English
### Alternative forms

* exigeant

### Etymology

From Latin exigēns, present active participle of exigō (“demand, require”).

### Pronunciation

* (UK, US) IPA: /ˈɛk.sɪ.d͡ʒənt/, /ˈɛɡ.zɪ.d͡ʒənt/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)

### Adjective

exigent (comparative more exigent, superlative most exigent)
* Urgent; pressing; needing immediate action.
** 2003, Working Group Report on Detainee Interrogations, U.S. Department of Defence
    Article 2 also provides that acts of torture cannot be justified on the grounds of exigent circumstances, such as state of war or public emergency, or on orders from a superior officer or public authority.
* Demanding; requiring great effort.

#### Derived terms

* allocatur exigent
* exigent circumstance
* exigenter
* exigently
* inexigent
* unexigent

#### Related terms

* exigence
* exigency
* exigenter

#### Translations
### Noun

exigent (plural exigents)
* (archaic) Extremity; end; limit; pressing urgency.
** 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v], page 104, column 2:Theſe Eyes, like Lampes, whoſe waſting Oyle is ſpent, / Waxe dimme, as drawing to their Exigent.
** 1611, [Miles Smith], “The Translators to the Reader”, in The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC:Therefore as one complaineth, that always in the Senate of Rome [Cicero 5° de finibus.], there was one or other that called for an interpreter: ſo leſt the Church be driuen to the like exigent, it is neceſſary to haue tranſlations in a readineſſe.
* (archaic) The amount that is required.
** 1840 March, Robert Browning, “Book the Third”, in Sordello, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 102:[H]is enterprise / Marked out anew, its exigent of wit / Apportioned, she at liberty to sit / And scheme against the next emergence, […]
* (obsolete, British, law) A writ in proceedings before outlawry.
** 1607, John Cowell, The Interpreter:They also make forthe writs of executions, and of seifin, writs of super seders, for appearance to exigents

#### Translations
## Catalan
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin exigentem, present active participle of exigō (“demand, require”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: (Central) [əɡ.ziˈʒen]
* IPA: (Balearic) [əɡ.ziˈʒent]
* IPA: (Valencia) [eɡ.ziˈd͡ʒent]

### Adjective

exigent m or f (masculine and feminine plural exigents)
* exigent, demanding

#### Related terms

* exigència
* exigir

### Further reading

* “exigent” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
* “exigent”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
* “exigent” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
* “exigent” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

exigent
* third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of exiger

## Latin
### Verb

exigent
* third-person plural future active indicative of exigō

## Romanian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French exigeant, from Latin exigens.

### Adjective

exigent m or n (feminine singular exigentă, masculine plural exigenți, feminine and neuter plural exigente)
* demanding